tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post5684097458676222292..comments2023-07-03T08:51:01.209-05:00Comments on What Powderfinger Said . . . Observations on Life in the Dying Empire: What Are You Going to Do with These People?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-31597323957636707782010-07-18T16:17:37.509-05:002010-07-18T16:17:37.509-05:00I certainly don't disagree. I've been talk...I certainly don't disagree. I've been talking for years about "BAPs"--baptized American pagans.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-43687994971217821222010-07-18T03:29:01.290-05:002010-07-18T03:29:01.290-05:00You're right on with the distinction between f...You're right on with the distinction between faith and religion.<br /><br />The faith of the Modern is a base, vile, and corrupt paganism.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-89452980110418142222010-07-17T07:29:32.657-05:002010-07-17T07:29:32.657-05:00I truly like the idea that religion is freedom, al...I truly like the idea that religion is freedom, although I'd be inclined to say "faith is freedom." But no matter how you state it, it certainly delivers us from the "compulsions and obsessions of collective mankind." Our national religion, I fear, is more secular than spiritual.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-40532740929728171492010-07-17T05:20:19.850-05:002010-07-17T05:20:19.850-05:00When Jesus said "Render unto Caesar that whic...When Jesus said "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's..." He set the stage for the divorce of the Holy from the Profane.<br /><br />Hitherto, god and state were mixed together into a state religion (and - unfortunately - would soon be again after Constantine).<br /><br />If Jesus was merely speaking of taxes and monies, He was a CPA.<br /><br />He wanted to show us religion is freedom, freedom from the compulsion and obsessions of collective mankind known as the "State".<br /><br />The greatest sin of our age is the inability to allow the religious nature of man to be expressed outside the confines of our national identity. This mixture is one of the clearest equivalencies we have to ancient Rome.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com